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SJ State j-school gets $8.7 million gift

The estate of Jack and Emma Anderson — whose Globe Printing Co. printed San Jose State’s student newspaper, the Spartan Daily, for two decades beginning in the 1950s — has donated $7.8 million to the school’s journalism department. The Mercury News’ Sal Pizarro reports that the money will be used to create an endowment, fund infrastructure improvements and establish a Center for New Media and Social Media Research.

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